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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup files for files under VC
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:53:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4p9vw9bt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqybe5j0.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> (Torsten Bronger's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:50:11 +0200")

> Note however that the distributed VCS'es don't store local copies of
> the last revision as CVS and SVN do.  So you have only the original
> files in the tree.

I'm not sure I understand correctly what you mean, but
Git/Bzr/Hg/Mtn/DaRCS do store the last revision (and all previous ones,
actually) locally.  It's "hidden" inside their internal data, but you
can access it with C-x v ~ any time (and presumably very quickly).


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  7:57 backup files for files under VC Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21  8:30 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-21  9:39 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 11:14   ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 11:58     ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 12:18       ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 12:35         ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 12:50           ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 13:09             ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 13:18               ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 13:39                 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 14:01                   ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 17:20                   ` Messy VC checkouts (was: backup files for files under VC) Phil Hagelberg
2008-04-21 18:00                     ` Messy VC checkouts Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 18:18                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-21 19:48               ` backup files for files under VC Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 14:53             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-21 15:47               ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 16:27                 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 16:35                   ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 14:48       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 15:20         ` David Kastrup

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